On Jan 19, 2012, at 4:43 PM,1/19, Kevin Callahan wrote: > This is rather interesting: > > "The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA" > http://venomousporridge.com/post/16126436616/ibooks-author-eula-audacity
I went and read that (along with the many comments). . .and the guy is either a troll or refuses to understand that he has misread the EULA. While I didn't read the whole EULA either . . .the parts he quotes say that if you use iBooks Author to create an epub then the output must either be free or sold only through the iBook Store. It specifically talks about "output" only and does not address any input files. Many of the commenters pointed out that this was not unreasonable . ..and that he could take the same source Word file that he ran through IBA to produce an iBook and run it through whatever else to make a Kindle edition of the same source file. However . . .this guy is outraged because (according to him) the EULA gives Apple sole publishing rights to the file and that if they choose not to publish it in the iBook Store then it can't be published for profit at all. Again, numerous people pointed out that only the iBooks format output was restricted but that using whatever else to take the Word or Pages file and produce an epub for Amazon was perfectly allowed . . .but his mind is made up. ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
